Published 7:00 pm, Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Western had held a 27-16 halftime lead before Fenton stormed back with a 44-point second-half performance to tie it at 60-60.

"The story of the overtime period is the story of the second half," Western coach Tim Walker said. "We played a real aggressive team, and we were really poor on the boards and really poor at the free throw line."

Fenton's Anthony Gerg scored a game-high 19 points.

"The reason they were able to score 77 points was they were able to get second, third and fourth shots because we just did not get in position," Walker said. "We were also about 50 percent from the free throw line, and that's not good enough to win a game."